Western Khmer dialect
Western Khmer, also known as Chanthaburi Khmer, is the dialect of the Khmer language spoken by the Khmer people native to the Cardamom Mountains on both sides of the border between western Cambodia and eastern Central Thailand (Chanthaburi Province). Developing in an historically isolated region, Western Khmer is the only dialect of modern Khmer to conserve the Middle Khmer phonation contrast of breathy voice versus modal voice that has been all but lost in the other dialects.[1][2]
| Western Khmer | |
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| Cardamom Khmer | |
| Chanthaburi Khmer | |
| Native to | Thailand, Cambodia |
| Region | Cardamom Mountains |
Austroasiatic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
khm-car | |
| Glottolog | None |
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Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p (pʰ) | t (tʰ) | c (cʰ) | k (kʰ) | ʔ |
| Voiced plosive | b | d | |||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |
| Liquid | r l | ||||
| Fricative | (f) | s | h | ||
| Approximant | w | j |
(f) in loan words
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| short | long | short | long | short | long | |
| Close | ||||||
| Close-mid | e | eː | ə | o | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɛː | ||||
| Open | a | aː | ɒ | ɒː | ||
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| short | long | short | long | short | long | |
| Close | i̤ | i̤ː | ɨ̤ | ɨ̤ː | ṳ | ṳː |
| Close-mid | e̤ː | ə̤ː | o̤ | o̤ː | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ̤ː | ɔ̤ː | ||||
| Open | a̤ | |||||
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References
- Wayland & Jongman. Chanthaburi Vowels: Phonetic and Phonemic Analyses Mon-Khmer Studies 31:65-82
- Acoustic correlates of breathy and clear vowels: the case of Khmer. Journal of Phonetics 31 (2003). pp 181-201
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